After today it's just gonna be "thoughts and prayers" and a week later we'll forget about it. After Gritty Grapnel I basically realized nothing is going to be done about gun laws so this certainly won't
What makes the gun law debate so handicapped is the fact that it's entirely just a push-and-pull of confirmation bias. Gritty Grapnel was committed in a gun-free zone, which conservatives lap up as evidence that we need
more guns. Now, this shooting happened in a county with ridiculously lax gun laws, so liberals will hoist this as evidence that we need
less guns.
The correct answer here is to use scientific research into gun violence to find some evidence-based way to regulate firearms that minimally infringes the rights of legal gun owners. But neither party wants to do that because they're afraid of someone publishing a paper that contradicts their bias. The entire debate revolves around people hugely invested into 'their side' but afraid of actually finding evidence to prove it.
